Prawn-in-a-tube procedure: Habituation or associative learning in cuttlefish?

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 131-152

  Purdy, Jesse E ^a   Dixon, Deann ^a   Estrada, Aleta ^a   Peters, Anne ^a   Riedlinger, Elizabeth ^a   Suarez, Ryan ^a  

^a SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Habituation; Learning ability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CUTTLEFISH; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HABITUATION; LEARNING; PREDATION; RANDOMIZATION; TIME; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEPIA; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33646742239     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/GENP.133.2.131-152     Document Type: Article

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